By Jane Wester | December 21, 2023
Claims against Giuliani include a suit filed by his former attorney Robert Costello and Costello's firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron for unpaid legal fees.
By Jane Wester | December 21, 2023
Claims against Giuliani include a suit filed by his former attorney Robert Costello and Costello's firm Davidoff Hutcher & Citron for unpaid legal fees.
By Jane Wester | December 21, 2023
White-collar defense attorneys doubted that high-profile criminal prosecutions such as those of the FTX and Binance founders would continue in 2024, but said they will keep a close eye on regulatory developments.
By Riley Brennan | December 21, 2023
"The statute simply does not provide clarity that truthful speech which generates an innocent or unreasonable listener mistake is outside of its scope. And this is sufficient to confer pre-enforcement standing," Justice Caleb Stegall said. "Thus, when the Legislature criminalizes speech and does not—within the elements and definitions of the crime—provide a high degree of specificity and clarity demonstrating that the only speech being criminalized is constitutionally unprotected speech, the law is sufficiently unclear to confer pre-enforcement standing on a plaintiff challenging the law."
New York Law Journal | Analysis
By Jerry H. Goldfeder | December 21, 2023
The victorious plaintiffs in 'Hoffmann v. New York State Independent Redistricting Commission' are counting on new lines to help Democratic congressional candidates in next year's election to make Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) Speaker of the House of Representatives.
By Cheryl Miller | December 20, 2023
State law requires the attorney general to determine that California would face no significant legal risk if it engages in cross-border cannabis sales. Attorney General Rob Bonta said Wednesday he could not make that finding.
By Allison Dunn | December 20, 2023
"In sum, I agree with the Attorney General that the fentanyl chain of distribution must be attacked at every link, at every level, and that the guilty must be brought to justice," U.S. District Judge William Alsup for the Northern District of California wrote. "Refusing to seek prison time for 'Fast Track' fentanyl dealers is an egregious error. Migrants deserve our sympathy in other contexts, but when they sell fentanyl they deserve to go to prison like everyone else."
By Marianna Wharry | December 20, 2023
"Just as racial bias odiously infects a jury's deliberations, it can have a deleterious impact on the decision-making of a defendant weighing the merits of a plea offer," Judge Rebecca Pennell wrote. "The abrupt injection of racial bias into one's decision-making process can engender feelings of inferiority, distrust, helplessness, and self-doubt."
By Michael A. Mora | December 19, 2023
"One of the big moments at trial was when we were questioning Swaim and he was still claiming to own all the land under the ocean," said Sen. George LeMieux, a shareholder at Gunster.
New Jersey Law Journal | Timeline
By Charles Toutant | December 19, 2023
For matrimonial lawyers and judges in Cumberland County, the judge shortage has created a situation "like we're practicing in the emergency room. We're in triage, trying to put out a fire here and a fire there, with so many cases having emergencies," attorney Jose Silva Jr. said earlier in the year.
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